SCP Pool Corporation distributes swimming pool supplies and related products to swimming pool remodelers and builders, independent retail stores and swimming pool repair and service companies. The company distributes more than 34,000 national brand and private label products to its customers. These products include both non-discretionary pool maintenance products, such as chemicals and replacement parts, packaged pools (kits to build swimming pools which include walls, liners, bracing and other materials), and pool equipment, such as cleaners and filters.

Distributors in this category typically get their goods to consumers through two avenues; either they have people who are considered self-employed that sell their product directly or through the Internet where a consumer can purchase their goods directly from the company. Some, especially book sellers, may even own their own manufacturing centers and retail stores where they can offer a discount to consumers through their vertical integration and ownership of the complete process of making their goods. Wholesalers are a very diverse lot ranging from books to food to electronic games to learning supplies, but they usually have one thing in common; they can offer deep discounts when compared to other mass merchandisers because they have fewer middlemen to give a share of the profits.